Preparing Medical Students to Teach

Preparing Medical Students for the Medical Interview

INTRODUCTION The medical interview is possibly the most important encounter the physician has with a patient, frequently uncovering important clues as to what prompted the patient’s visit. To conduct an optimal medical interview, the physician must be aware of patient behavior patterns and be able to communicate effectively. In a seminal essay written in 1973, George Engel proclaimed, “The keys...

Using movies to teach professionalism to medical students

BACKGROUND Professionalism topics are usually not covered as a separate lesson within formal curriculum, but in subtler and less officially recognized educational activities, which makes them difficult to teach and assess. Interactive methods (e.g. movies) could be efficient teaching methods but are rarely studied. The aims of this study were: 1) to test the relevance and usefulness of movies i...

Using game format to teach psychopharmacology to medical students.

BACKGROUND Most psychiatric programs provide lectures on basic principles of psychopharmacology. Yet, this traditional approach has been criticized due to excessive information and passive transfer of expert knowledge. An alternative teaching method is the use of "academic games." AIMS To investigate medical students' acquisition of knowledge on psychopharmacology, and their perception of a g...

Who will teach the medical students?

Medical students teach Basic Life Support to non-medical students: a pilot study.

Mortality following Cardiac Arrest (CA) is highly correlated to he quality of first responders’ Basic Life Support (BLS).1 Many studes highlight the lack of knowledge and poor quality of BLS provided y both the general population and by medical students.2,3 We ecently introduced a simulation based course on BLS for our medcal students.4 In a project entitled « See one, Do one, Teach ten », e ai...